Not your job

“After you ask for what you want, if you think that You have to make it happen, you will experience feelings of doubt. Those feelings of doubt are telling you the “how” is not your job. Your job is to feel your dream inside. Then the Universe will move people, circumstances, and events to bring about your dream. You have the intelligence of the Universe permeated in every cell of your body. The activation of this almighty power of all good comes through your awareness of it. The moment you are aware that it is within you, you have consciously activated the greatest power in the Universe to work through you.”

- The Secret Calendar

BIG PLANS

“There is so much unlimited wonder and magnificence that awaits you, if you can just let go and let it into your life. The Universe cannot express itself through you if you are busy with your little plans. The Universe wants to express BIG plans through You. To tune in to the Universal Good, quiet your senses, focus your mind to within You, and feel the presence of this almighty power that permeates every cell of your body. You will feel a peace, a serenity, and a joy begin to rush through you. Be still, and as you feel the power inside you, know that this is the power of the entire Universe, and in this moment You are connected to it all.”

- The Secret Calendar

You can also check:
Jeremiah 29:11
Psalm 46:10

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Out with the old, in with the new

As 2008 draws to a close, we often become reflective thinking about how the past year has gone, the highs, lows, things we want to change, things we might have done differently, things to be thankful for.

It is also a time of new resolutions, goal setting and continued dreams.

Personally I am making 2009 the year of gratitude as I believe that if you are grateful in the now, for even the smallest things, this paves the way for greater good to come to you to appreciate.

Have an awesome end of 2008 and an awesome 2009.

Remember, go confidently in the direction of your dreams, LIVE the life you have imagined!

Peace, blessings and abundance to you and yours. See you in 2009!

- Emma Holmes

The will

The will to win is as important as the ability to do so.

- Jamie Carragher

KISS my scratch

My very very good friend and longtime musical collaborator The Keyboard Master recently sent me the following from his blog:

I personally regard my first recording sessions as the greatest ever!
They contained the greatest solos, the keyboards were the loudest thing in the mix and why play a cmajor 7 if a diminished flattened 9th was available?!
They were great for ME, but not for anyone else.
The first principle of playing on record is KISS.

Keep
It
Simple
Stupid

The same goes for scratching! Don’t crowd the space with a million click flares and thousand finger crab uzi stabs! It’s easy to cover up your mistakes with fast scratches, but how good can you make a simple baby or 1 click flare sound?

Send me your videos of simple funky scratching and if they “cut” it they will appear for all to see

Scratching Self Mastery

My very very good friend and longtime musical collaborator The Keyboard Master recently sent me the following from his blog:

“Keyboard Mastery begins with an understanding that self mastery will be the foundation upon which you build your success.

It all begins with the way you see yourself in relation to your goal.

Think, ‘this is unattainable’ and it will be.

Think ’scales are a chore’ and they will be.

Think ‘I will never get there’ and you will not be disappointed.

The truth is that if you believe you can, you are right and if you believe you can’t, you are right as well.”

The same is true for scratching mastery:

Scratching begins with an understanding that self mastery will be the foundation upon which you build your success.

It all begins with the way you see yourself in relation to your goal.

Think, ‘this is unattainable’ and it will be.

Think ‘learning scratch techniques is a chore’ and it will be.

Think ‘I will never get there’ and you will not be disappointed.

The truth is that if you believe you can, you are right and if you believe you can’t, you are right as well.

Keep scratching!

DJ Short-e

The Boy and the Starfish

For Mr Martyn Holmes….

Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf’s edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.
The man was stuck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, “You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can’t possibly make a difference.” The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, “It sure made a difference to that one!”

Keep on keeping on people!

Enlightenment

Enlightenment exists in the moment between 2 thoughts.

Alan Finger - Yoga instructor

Create

“Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.”
- Carl Fox in the movie Wall Street

(Found in Brad DeHaven’s book - “The Currency of the Future”)

do not…

I have read this poem before, but saw this video version on Jermaine Griggs website which I thought I would share with you all: